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1918-S Overdates & Overmintmarks

1918/7-S Standing Liberty

Intriguing History

A San Francisco engraver mistakenly repunched a working die for the 1918 Standing Liberty quarter with the previous year's final digit, leaving a plainly visible "7" beneath the "8" -- one of the most famous overdate varieties in twentieth-century American coinage.